Mansfield, Louisiana Mansfield, Louisiana City of Mansfield Downtown Mansfield about The Mansfield Enterprise newspaper, once edited by Joseph Barton Elam, Jr.

Downtown Mansfield about The Mansfield Enterprise newspaper, once edited by Joseph Barton Elam, Jr.

Location in De - Soto Parish and the state of Louisiana.

Location in De - Soto Parish and the state of Louisiana.

Mansfield, Louisiana is positioned in Louisiana Mansfield, Louisiana - Mansfield, Louisiana Location in De - Soto Parish and the state of Louisiana.

States Louisiana Another look at downtown Mansfield Community Bank of Louisiana in Mansfield The First Baptist Church of Mansfield is positioned at 1710 Mc - Arthur Drive (U.S.

Historical marker at Mansfield State Historic Site referring to part of First Baptist Church amid the battle of Mansfield Mansfield is a small town/city in and the church seat of De - Soto Parish, Louisiana, United States. The populace was 5,001 at the 2010 census, a diminish of more than 10 percent from the 2000 tabulation.

Mansfield is 77 percent African American. Mansfield is part of the Shreveport Bossier City Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The Battle of Mansfield, a Confederate victory under General Richard Taylor (son of Zachary Taylor), was fought here on April 8, 1864.

The battle is memorialized at the Mansfield State Historic Site some four miles south of Mansfield off Louisiana Highway 175.

The first woman's college west of the Mississippi River, Mansfield Female College, was established by the Methodist Church there in 1855.

Financial problem and the threat of war closed the college from 1860 to the end of the American Civil War, amid which its buildings served as a hospital for soldiers wounded in the battle of Mansfield; it reopened in 1865.

In 1930, Mansfield Female College consolidated with Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport and closed its doors permanently.

In 2003, the Louisiana State Legislature moved to convert the chief building of Mansfield Female College, the Lyceum, into a future exhibition.

The downtown scenes of Marshall, however, were actually shot on locale in downtown Mansfield.

Mansfield is positioned at 32 1 58 N 93 42 9 W (32.032782, -93.702475) and has an altitude of 335 feet (102.1 m). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.7 square miles (9.6 km ), all of it land.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 29.6% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 25.2% from 25 to 44, 19.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.9% who were 65 years of age or older.

Terrell, a small-town pastor who ran unsuccessfully in 2011 for the Louisiana State Senate against another Republican, Sherri Smith Buffington of Keithville in southern Caddo Parish.

Logan used Mansfield as the setting for his play The Wisteria Trees.

He was born in Mansfield on June 21, 1932.

Mansfield is the place of birth of primary league baseball player Vida Blue (born Vida Rochelle Blue, Jr.

Mansfield is also the place of birth of Albert Lewis (born Albert Ray Lewis on October 6, 1960).

NFL cornerback Fakhir Brown (born Fakhir Hamin Brown on September 21, 1977) initially attended Mansfield High School.

Others affiliated with Mansfield by birth or residence include: Eastman (1861 1938), mayor of Shreveport from 1910 to 1914, was born in Mansfield in 1861.

(1878-1935), mayor of Mansfield from 1914 to 1920, editor of The Mansfield Enterprise Riemer Calhoun (1909-1994), state senator from De - Soto and Caddo churches from 1944 to 1952 Kenny Ray Cox (born 1957), black state representative for Natchitoches, De - Soto, and Red River churches; retired United States Army lieutenant colonel residing in Mansfield Jeff Hall, accountant in Alexandria and Democratic member of the Louisiana House for District 26 since 2015; former Mansfield resident Lee (born 1934) former Desoto Parish school superintendent; propel member of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Prescott (1863-1942), beginning president of Louisiana Tech University, born in Mansfield but reared in St.

Mayor Curtis Mc - Coy is listed among the state and small-town officials who have endorsed the reelection in 2014 of Democrat U.S.

"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

"New Mansfield alderman's residency questioned".

Municipalities and communities of De - Soto Parish, Louisiana, United States City of Shreveport & Shreveport/Bossier City Metro

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